Hobby Shop ?

**dakota343** · 02-18-2008, 08:22 PM

Quick questions on how you feel about this card shop practice.

I went into a different card shop for the first time the other day and saw the owner was selling 07 Topps Finest Football. If you are not familiar with the product the boxes are divided into 3 miniboxes. Within each minibox there are 6 packs (one of which has an auto).

The Box sells for around $110. The miniboxes usually sell for about $45-$50. This shop was selling the PACKS for $8 each but not by the miniboxes. The packs are stamped from topps with a "not intended for individual sale" right on them.

Seems wrong to me. Especially if they get the AUTO out of the mini-box and sell the rest. It might just be me but I opened a few miniboxes and found the Auto to be the last pack on most. Is this what they are up to? I know they are suppose to be making money (they are a business) but that seemed messed up.

Anyone have an opinion on this?>

**~~titosupreme~~** · 02-18-2008, 08:25 PM

it all depends i guess... I see no problem with it if the owner sells mini boxes as well, maybe he is just giving people that can't afford a whole mini box a chance at buying some finest wax. But if ALL he sells is the packs individually, that's a little fishy to me....

**~~bearfield~~** · 02-18-2008, 09:02 PM

did they have a bunch of finest autos for trade? if so, guess what.
i have been in stores that had counters full of inserts, they said they broke a lot of wax, but didn't have any singles to speak of. guess what.

**selby56** · 02-18-2008, 10:23 PM

That does seem kinda odd, but like what was said earlier, not everyone can afford the mini box. Like me, being 15 and not having too much money for the high end boxes, or really any boxes for that matter, if there is a pack for 8 bucks and I had 1:6 chance of pulling an auto, I'd buy a pack, maybe even two.

**~~bearfield~~** · 02-19-2008, 10:13 PM

you would have a 1:6 chance of pulling an auto if they didn't already snag it.

**dakota343** · 02-20-2008, 12:02 AM

True the odds of the auto are good like you guys said. I will have to check if it looks like a full box. It was just odd to see them open the mini box and sell the packs.

**PBamber16** · 02-20-2008, 10:24 AM

I have no problem with shops selling indivdual packs as well as boxes. Like other's have said, it is good for those of us on tighter budgets! However if it obviouly says on the pack that they are not for individual sale, then I think that is wrong; he should leave that product in the mini-boxes and sell them how the company intended them to be sold.